AFF News

With new panels and new panelists added all the way up to the festival this year is going to be the best ever! New panel Friday, October 2010:45 a.m. – 12 p.m. The State of…  Read More

Bethany Ashton Wolf, co-writer/director/producer, LITTLE CHENIER Bethany Ashton Wolf began her career in Los Angeles as an actress but soon found herself co-writing and co-producing the controversial indie film “Don’s Plum,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and…  Read More

J. Anderson Mitchell (left), writer/co-director, and Jeremy Kipp Walker (right), producer/co-director, SUPER POWERS Jeremy Kipp Walker & J. Anderson Mitchell’s 2007 Academy Award-qualifying debut short film “Goodnight Bill” screened at more than 20 premiere film…  Read More

Andrew McAllister, writer/director, URBAN SCARECROW Andrew McAllister is a Seattle-based freelance director and editor, most recently producing spots for the Seattle Seahawks and editing a documentary on Evel Knievel for the History Channel. His first…  Read More

Seth Caplan, producer, DUNCAN REMOVED A graduate of the University of Texas, Caplan has worked for production companies in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Caplan co-founded Enspire Learning, where he produced e-learning courses for…  Read More

Brian Jun, writer/director, STEEL CITY Jun’s script for this film was a screenplay finalist at the 2003 Austin Film Festival. Briefly describe the film.The film is set in a fictional Midwestern steel town, concerning two…  Read More

Todd Berger, writer/director, HOLIDAYS WITH HEATHER Todd Berger hails from the bayous of New Orleans, La., and studied Radio-Televison-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been working as a screenwriter and actor…  Read More

Amy Talkington, writer/director, THE NIGHT OF THE WHITE PANTS Before writing and directing “The Night of the White Pants,” Talkington directed five short films that played festivals all over the world. Three of her shorts…  Read More

Patrick McKenna, writer/actor, TWENTY MINUTE PROPHET Patrick McKenna is a writer and director from Chicago, where has worked at the Second City for the last 13 years. He currently directs shows for the Communications arm…  Read More